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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 19, 2015 in the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:
ISIS is "going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 in a GOP debate on CNN:
"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 30, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"We're practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 in a campaign statement:
Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 6, 2015 in an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 1, 2015 in a post on her campaign website:
"Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception" five times.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 30, 2015 in a radio interview with Hugh Hewitt:
"Here’s the simple and undeniable fact: The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 29, 2015 in an interview on CNN:
"The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015
Arsalan Iftikhar
Arsalan Iftikhar
stated on November 22, 2015 in a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"59 percent of Americans today believe that Barack Obama is still a Muslim."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 23, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 19, 2015 in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations:
"The Libyan people have voted twice in free and fair elections for the kind of leadership they want."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 23, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 17, 2015 in an interview on Laura Ingraham's radio show:
The federal government is sending refugees to states with governors who are "Republicans, not to the Democrats."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 18, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on November 16, 2015 in posts on the Internet:
In Japan, "permanent residency is not given to Muslims," the "propagation of Islam" is banned, "one cannot import a Koran published in the Arabic language," and "Muslims cannot even rent a house."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 17, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 14, 2015 in a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
The United States is "the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 14, 2015 in a Democratic presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa:
"Wages adjusted for inflation haven’t risen since the turn of the last century."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on November 10, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee:
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has "no congressional oversight."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on November 6, 2015 in a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.:
"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • November 12, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on November 10, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee:
"Obamacare isn't helping anyone."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2015
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